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Is It Time To Run Around Monkey Screaming Yet? Asteroid May Hit The Earth in 2015 8000 Megatons
MPML / A list for asteroid and comet research ^ | 6/28/2010 | Andrea Milani

Posted on 06/30/2010 11:36:48 AM PDT by Dallas59

The object 2010 KH has been observed only by WISE and currently has a disgusting orbit: semimajor axis = 3.2 +- 3 AU. In fact, it might not even be a NEO. However, by using the available data, we have found Virtual impactors, including one in 2015, of course with a very low impact probability (the asteroid could be almost anywhere, thus we cannot exclude that it could be on top of us at some time in the near future).

Now this situation is very unpleasant. This object possibly does not even exist as a NEO, on the other hand the nominal solution is a NEO with absolute magnitude 18.2. Our way to handle this would be to proclaim that it has not been discovered, and refuse to give credit to WISE and to NASA for such a terrible job. However, as you well know, this kind of decision is not in our hands.

Our job is to report objects which might be impacting the Earth. It is not part of our style to adopt scare tactics to push astronomers to observe asteroids with Virtual Impactors; however, with very simple arithmetics, it can be deduced from our risk page that in case this asteroid was to impact the Earth in 2015, the impact energy is estimated at 8,000 megatons.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Science
KEYWORDS: asteroid; catastrophism; collision
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1 posted on 06/30/2010 11:36:54 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

Nothing worse than being impacted...


2 posted on 06/30/2010 11:39:07 AM PDT by Afisra
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To: Dallas59

It has a disgusting orbit.

Is it orbiting Michael Moore or something?


3 posted on 06/30/2010 11:40:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Dallas59

Would it help to run around screaming? I bet not.


4 posted on 06/30/2010 11:40:43 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea

Check the air in your tires then and fill your gastank with corn oil.

WE MUST do all we CAN!


5 posted on 06/30/2010 11:42:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Dallas59
8000 megatons is nothing to worry about. It's a very quick way to die. Try to find comfort in that. Because we can't do squat about it if it is headed this way.

/johnny

6 posted on 06/30/2010 11:43:48 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Dallas59

No need to worry, according the Myan calendar its all over come 2012. See, don’t worry, be happy.


7 posted on 06/30/2010 11:44:14 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Dallas59

Well, it’s useless to stop smoking and drinking now.


8 posted on 06/30/2010 11:44:24 AM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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To: Dallas59
I kinda like running around screaming...so OK

YAHHHHH!

9 posted on 06/30/2010 11:44:45 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Dallas59

By ‘15, we may welcome the distraction.


10 posted on 06/30/2010 11:44:54 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: Dallas59

Wow. Completely unreadable.


11 posted on 06/30/2010 11:46:28 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Dallas59

Wow. Utterly unreadable.


12 posted on 06/30/2010 11:46:51 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes, and I think we have to stop breeding cats and dogs too! (well, according to another thread).


13 posted on 06/30/2010 11:48:16 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Dallas59

Indeed, it’s both completely and utterly unreadable.


14 posted on 06/30/2010 11:48:25 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Dallas59
I think I'll try the chipotle sauce this time...

...or maybe the guacamole...

I hate this.

I can't decide!

15 posted on 06/30/2010 11:49:50 AM PDT by Allegra (My seventh chakra is oppressed.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

16 posted on 06/30/2010 11:55:08 AM PDT by Lil Flower (Hey, look at me!! I'm "Bloggin While White!!")
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To: Dallas59

Don’t know what’s worse....Living through a second Obammy term or the earth getting hit with an asteroid.....


17 posted on 06/30/2010 11:55:17 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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18 posted on 06/30/2010 11:55:44 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Dallas59

19 posted on 06/30/2010 11:57:47 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Dallas59

Preemptive strike: “Bush’s fault!!”


20 posted on 06/30/2010 11:59:05 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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